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Ill. 3: Bar chart containing the absolute frequencies of watermarks’ height. The red line marks the mean. ing platform that allows not only access to the watermark databases, but also contains a variety of additional information and tools for paper research. The German Book and Scripts Museum of the German National Library (DNB) in Leipzig has long recorded, documented, and collected publications in various languages about paper. The resulting bibliography is by far one of the largest on this topic. Although its bibliographic database was originally conceived as multinational, both its classifications and subject headings, as well as all geographical terms are only in German. A new database scheme was therefore needed for Bernstein in order to provide multilingual access. In cooperation with the DNB Leipzig, the integration of the bibliographic database into the Bernstein Workspace is now using the Cheshire3 search engine from the University of Liverpool. Cheshire3 is a fast XML search engine that has been jointly developed by the Universities of Berkeley and Liverpool (see www.cheshire3.org) (Ill. 1). It should also be noted, as a further example for Bernstein’s networking with contextual data, that a cross-linking has been created between the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) and the incunabula database in Bernstein (WILC). Statistical graphs are an important tool for transmitting and gaining insight into large amounts of data. With more than 120,000 records and an expected annual growth of ten percent, the Bernstein platform provides extensive op- portunities for statistical analysis. For any data selection, basic statistical parameters, such as mean and standard deviation, can be calculated and also numerically and graphically displayed. In the individual databases this is not possible. A frequency chart can be created for each search item. Furthermore, two parameters can be correlated and their mutual dependence illustrated as a chart (Ill. 2). Export functions for the statistical data and the possibility to use the individual diagrams by means of copy and paste complete the statistical features (Ill. 3). Geographical indications such as ‘place of use’ or ‘depository’ are contained in the metadata of the individual records. The geographical positions can be marked on maps and thus visualized. Bernstein offers a GIS module with extensive functionality for the visualization of geographical data. Geographical maps can be created for any given selection of data records (Ill. 4). The current link between four databases in Bernstein only makes sense if other databases participate in the project in the future. The WIES (Watermarks in Incunabula printed in España) database will be the fifth to be integrated into Bernstein during its implementation period. A major concern is to ensure the further growth of the integrated data so that Bernstein can become strongly established and develop into the main source for information on paper and watermarks. In order to facilitate the creation of new wa- 101
Ill. 4: The 4,475 sites appearing in the Bernstein databases where paper was produced, written on or used in other ways between the 14 th and 19 th century. termark databases, a so-called Bernstein ‘dissemination kit’ is being offered. It allows the easy installation of a preconfigured database, augmented with programs for image enhancement and measurement. This enables holders of watermark data to create their own, Bernstein compatible watermark databases. The ‘dissemination kit’ is free, multilingual and user-friendly. New watermark databases have been created and some of them also made available online since the application for the Bernstein project in 2005. A list of such collections can be found in Bernstein’s document management system (http://www.bernstein.oeaw.ac.at/twiki/bin/view/Main/PaperDatabases). The aim of a follow-up project to Bernstein is, of course, the inclusion of additional datasets, but also the digitalization of the most important printed watermark catalogues, which still remain important sources of reference material. Bernstein is a partner in the project ‘Europeana – The European digital library, museum and archive’. Europeana’s goal is to create a portal website that offers direct access to millions of digital objects (film footage, photographs, paint- 102 ings, music, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, etc.) (see http://europeana.eu). Literature: Erastov, The Beta-radiographic Technique. Bernstein Technology M.S. / E.W. (M.S. / E.W. / L.D. / C.P.-K.) The objective of the Bernstein Project is to create an integrated European digital environment for the history of paper. The following four watermarks databases were already available online via the internet before the start of the project: Piccard-Online, WILC, WZMA and NIKI. In order to create an integrated system (the Bernstein portal), these existing watermarks databases have been connected by means of a common and uniform workspace to allow a synchronous search within all four databases.
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